A mother asked a state district judge on Tuesday to spare her daughter prison time for torturing her own 2-year-old and gluing her hands to a wall with Super Glue.

“Your honor, my daughter made a mistake,” Ofelia Escalona said. “She’s not a monster. She needs help. … I’m asking you for probation.”

Escalona made the tearful plea in a Dallas County courtroom not long after prosecutor Eren Price asked her whether she believed Elizabeth Escalona was solely responsible for the torture Jocelyn Cedillo endured in September 2011. Ofelia Escalona, who now cares for Jocelyn and her four siblings, answered yes.

Prosecutors are seeking a 45-year sentence for Elizabeth Escalona, who pleaded guilty in July to felony injury to a child. Jocelyn’s siblings told investigators that their mother hit the child with a belt and a shoe and dragged her around by her feet. They said she kicked the girl and hit her in the stomach with a jug of milk.

Jocelyn suffered bleeding in her brain and nearly died from the abuse, which left her in a coma.

The abuse was thought to be over potty training.

State District Judge Larry Mitchell could sentence Escalona to up to life in prison. He also could sentence her to deferred adjudication probation. If he goes that route and she doesn’t violate the terms of her probation, she would not have a criminal conviction on her record.

On the first day of the sentencing proceedings, prosecutors presented graphic photos that showed horrific injuries all over Jocelyn’s body. On Tuesday, Escalona’s attorney, Angie N’Duka, presented more recent photos showing Jocelyn looking happy and playing with her siblings.

She was seen playing games at Chuck E. Cheese’s, wearing a Santa cap, going down a slide at a park and reading bedtime stories.

“She’s a very healthy little girl,” Ofelia Escalona said of her granddaughter, whose middle name means miracle in Spanish.

Under the terms of an agreement with Child Protective Services, Ofelia Escalona cannot let the children have contact with their mother. She said she abides by that agreement.

Ofelia Escalona was testifying for the second day as a prosecution witness, but she has repeatedly made excuses for her daughter’s behavior and said she could have done a better job raising her.

“Elizabeth can be fixed,” she said. “I know that she can be helped. … I regret not doing more for my daughter.”

According to testimony, Elizabeth Escalona was troubled from a young age. She used drugs and was part of a gang as a teenager. She also assaulted and threatened to kill her mother several years ago, according to testimony.

Escalona couldn’t stay out of trouble even after she nearly killed her daughter, according to testimony.

She was jailed in the case from September 2011 until Feb. 14, when her mother contributed to help her post bail and get out of jail. The next day, she gave birth to her fifth child, a boy, according to testimony.

A little more than a month later, she got into a violent, drunken fight with friends while celebrating her 23rd birthday at a Dallas apartment. Dallas police officers arrested her and two other people on charges of disorderly conduct, according to the officers’ testimony.

At the jail, Escalona seemed unconcerned by the arrest.

“It was like a party for her,” said Senior Cpl. Lorelei Tanney, the officer who took her to jail.

Escalona is being held at the Dallas County Jail.

Health professionals called by the defense believe Escalona has long been depressed and was in abusive relationships with the father of her first two children and later with the father of her three younger children, including Jocelyn.

N’Duka repeatedly noted that Escalona now has her “tubes tied” so that she cannot have any more children. Among witnesses N’Duka called to testify was Escalona’s psychotherapist, Graciela Montani.

Montani said she believes Escalona snapped and may have been having a “brief psychotic episode” when she abused her daughter. Escalona doesn’t remember what she did, Montani said.

When the psychotherapist read Escalona details about the crime, Montani said she cried and seemed remorseful.